Kim Jong-nam

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Korean spelling
Chosŏn'gŭl 김정남
Hancha 金正 男
Revised
Romanization 		Gim Jeong-nam
McCune-
Reischauer 		Kim Chŏngnam

Kim Jong-nam (born May 10, 1971 in Pyongyang , North Korea , † February 13, 2017 in Sepang , Malaysia ) was the eldest son of Kim Jong-il , the former ruler of North Korea. His mother was Sung Hae-rim, the second wife of Kim Jong-il.

Life

Kim Jong-nam is said to have fallen from grace in early 2000. He made headlines in 2001 when he was picked up in Japan with a forged Dominican Republic passport allegedly on his way to Tokyo Disneyland . According to media reports, Kim has lived in Macau since then . According to a report in a Japanese newspaper, he is said to have asked for political asylum there in June 2009 after numerous people close to him were arrested on April 3 of that year in Pyongyang .

It was long suspected that Kim Jong-nam would one day succeed his father as head of state. In 2009, however, there were increasing signs that Kim Jong-il wanted to build his youngest son Kim Jong-un as his successor. After this was confirmed at the end of September 2010, Kim Jong-nam is said to have questioned the "hereditary dynasty" of the Kims in October 2010. In the book "My Father Kim Jong-il and I: Kim Jong-nam's Exclusive Confessions", published in 2012 by the Japanese journalist Yōji Gomi of the Tōkyō Shimbun newspaper , Kim Jong-nam was quoted with critical statements about North Korea. His younger half-brother is only a symbol of the power elite. North Korea is an unstable system and economic reforms like those in the People's Republic of China are necessary.

attack

On February 13, 2017, Kim Jong-nam was taken from Kuala Lumpur Airport in Malaysia to the local Putrajaya Hospital due to malaise and died shortly after arrival. A liquid had been splashed on his face, he had explained to the airport staff.

The director of the law enforcement department of the Polis Diraja Malaysia initially stated that there was still no evidence of an assassination attempt. Later, however, on February 14, police arrested a 28-year-old woman with a Vietnamese passport at Kuala Lumpur Airport. A woman with an Indonesian passport was also arrested on February 15. Two days later, Malaysia's police arrested a North Korean man and wrote three others to be wanted. One of the women is said to have been tricked into attempting the attack by pretending that this was a joke with a hidden camera . However, according to a video evaluation, Malaysia's police assumed that the women knew they were handling poison when they attacked Kim. In a press release on February 22, she said the women kept their hands away from their bodies and immediately cleaned their hands in a washroom after the attack.

Diplomats from North Korea tried to prevent an autopsy of the corpse on February 14 and 15, 2017 in Kuala Lumpur General Hospital, but residues of the nerve agent VX were found in tissue samples from the dead man's face and eyes , which if taken in a few minutes can lead to death . One of the women arrested had also shown symptoms of VX poisoning.

North Korea officially denies any involvement in the incident. At the beginning of March 2017 there was a diplomatic crisis between the two states. The respective ambassadors were expelled from the country. Both Malaysia and North Korea imposed travel bans on nationals of the other country.

Kim Jong-nam's body was transferred to North Korea in late March 2017. Several North Koreans were allowed to leave the country under an agreement. In return, nine Malaysian citizens were allowed to leave North Korea.

A police officer testified in a court in Malaysia on October 12, 2017 that images from a surveillance camera showed two men giving the women a liquid before the attack. A third man is suspected of having hired the two women. A fourth is said to have hired one of the men at the airport.

An article published on December 1, 2017 names the two women accused and that the defense attorney for one of them reproduced the testimony of a Malaysian poison expert. Accordingly, a bottle with 12 white atropine tablets was found at Kim Jong-nam . Atropine can be taken as an "antidote" against VX, but is also used to treat stomach cramps.

The allegations against the accused Indonesian Siti Aisyah were dropped in early March 2019 and the woman was released from custody.

At the beginning of April 2019, the allegation of murder against the accused Vietnamese Doan Thi Huong was not pursued further. She was sentenced to 3 years and 4 months in prison for willful assault. After serving two years of pre-trial detention, it was assumed that she would be released in May 2019 and be able to return to her home country, leaving the alleged murder of Kim Jong-nam unresolved.

June 2019 which reported the Wall Street Journal that Kim Jong-nam, a informant of the CIA was.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Big brother slanders ruler Kim Jong-un . Welt Online , January 12, 2012, accessed February 14, 2017.
  2. ↑ Note. Kim Jong-un and Kim Jong-nam are half-brothers because the sons of Kim Jong-il.
  3. ↑ a b North Korea: Kim Jong-il's son leads a luxury life in Macau . Spiegel Online , February 2, 2007, accessed February 14, 2017.
  4. ↑ Park Sung Kook: Did Kim Jong Nam Seek Asylum in Macau? In: Daily NK , June 5, 2009, accessed February 14, 2017.
  5. ↑ Elder dictator's son questions Kim dynasty . Spiegel Online , October 12, 2010, accessed on February 14, 2017.
    Till Fähnders: A portrait of Kim Jong-nam: passed. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , October 12, 2010, accessed on February 14, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Yōji Gomi: 父 ・ 金正日 と 私 金正 男 独占 告白 Chichi Kim Jong-il to watashi: Kim Jong-nam dokusen kokuhaku . ISBN 978-4-16-375190-0
  7. ↑ Scott Snyder: Kim Jong-un's Dangerous Brother. The Diplomat, January 22, 2012, accessed February 14, 2017 .
  8. ↑ Doubts on North Korea From Dead Leader's Son. The New York Times, January 18, 2012, accessed February 14, 2017 .
  9. ↑ Kim Jong-un's half-brother Kim Jong-nam assassinated in Malaysia by 'female North Korean spies with poison needle'. The Telegraph, February 14, 2017, accessed February 14, 2017 .
  10. ↑ Kim Jong Uns half-brother poisoned in Malaysia. Neue Zürcher Zeitung, February 14, 2017, accessed on February 14, 2017 .
  11. ↑ Kim Jong Un's half-brother Kim Jong Nam dead in Malaysia, local police confirm. In: North Korea News. February 14, 2017, accessed February 15, 2017 .
  12. ↑ Kim Jong-nam death: Malaysia police hold female suspect. In: BBC News. February 15, 2017, accessed February 15, 2017 .
  13. ^ Julian Ryall: Kim Jong-nam assassination: Autopsy completed on North Korean leader's brother as second woman arrested. In: The Telegraph. February 16, 2017, accessed February 23, 2018 .
  14. ↑ a b Emily Chow, Liz Lee: Malaysia arrests North Korean man as row over Kim Jong Nam's death escalates. In: Reuters. February 18, 2017, accessed February 23, 2018 .
  15. ↑ Malaysia arrests North Koreans. faz.net , February 18, 2017
  16. ↑ Eileen Ng, AP: Police: Suspects in N. Korean death coated hands with poison Washington Post, February 22, 2017.
  17. ↑ Investigators find neurotoxins on Kim Jong Nam's corpse Spiegel Online from February 23, 2017.
  18. ↑ The New York Times (International Edition), February 24, 2017, p. 6.
  19. ↑ North Korea and Malaysia impose mutual ban on leaving the country. Spiegel Online, March 7, 2017, accessed on the same day.
  20. ^ "Malaysia agrees to release body of Kim Jong-nam to North Korea in trade for nine Malaysians held in Pyongyang" The Telegraph of March 30, 2017
  21. ↑ Witness: Four men involved in the murder of Kim's brother orf.at, October 12, 2017, accessed on October 12, 2017.
  22. ↑ Kim's murdered half-brother carried antidote with him orf.at, December 1, 2017, accessed on December 1, 2017.
  23. ^ "Kim Jong Nam murder suspect Siti Aisyah freed by Malaysia after charges dropped" The Independent of March 11, 2019
  24. ↑ new germany, April 2, 2019
  25. ^ Warren P. Strobel: North Korean Leader's Slain Half Brother Was a CIA Source . In: Wall Street Journal . June 10, 2019, ISSN  0099-9660 ( wsj.com [accessed June 11, 2019]).
Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Kim is the family name here, Jong-nam is the first name.
personal data
SURNAME Kim, Jong-nam
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 김정남 (Hangeul); 金正 男 (Hanja); Gim, Jeong-nam (Revised Romanization); Kim, Chŏngnam (McCune-Reischauer)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION North Korean son of the North Korean ruler Kim Jong-il
DATE OF BIRTH May 10, 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Pyongyang , North Korea
DATE OF DEATH February 13, 2017
Place of death Sepang , Malaysia